Rate this Card

Rate this item:

Rating: 3.9/5. From 2152 votes.

Please wait...

Zola the Gorgon Additional Information

Zola the Gorgon Card Review

Before anything else, even though it’s exciting, in order to better and honestly evaluate what she does, we have to immediately forget that the copy she adds to our hand is golden, because that’s absolutely irrelevant. Great, but irrelevant. Now, what does being able to add a copy of a minion mean? The most obvious answer is that it’s great with Battlecry minions. Obviously Zola’s stats are not great, but any deck that wants to generate more of a minion probably won’t care about the slight loss in tempo that comes with playing her. This is a value-oriented card. As such, she opens up new possibilities. We saw Manic Soulcaster being played in the Kazakus Mage lists from the previous Standard rotation and she is still core to most Reno Mage decks in Wild. The problem with Soulcaster is that she was a Mage class card. Zola now opens up that possibility to get 4 Kazakus potions with Brann for Priest and Warlock too, at least one of which has a prominent Kazakus deck currently in Standard.

Aside from Kazakus specifically, there is no shortage of good cards you could copy with Zola the Gorgon. Probably not cards that cost more than 7 mana, because they are not guaranteed to live until the next turn, but Zola is a better Youthful Brewmaster because she allows you to gain all of the value from your minion again without returning it to hand. This is particularly true when you want to get a copy of a fat defensive creature or perhaps even a Deathrattle minion. Her usefulness doesn’t begin and end with Battlecries, which makes her a somewhat unique figure in the value generating space, functioning a lot more like a Shadowcaster rather than a Youthful Brewmaster while keeping the minion’s stats… and unfortunately the mana cost.

So right away, a 3 mana 2/2 that draws a card seems… okay. It compares okay to Novice Engineer, though a 2/2 body is much more relevant than a 1/1. The fact that you pick the card you get is pretty important, and I suspect that it will allow some interesting combos, but I can’t see this being anything more than niche. I’ve seen cards like this that have just kind of bobbled and died. In wild, I imagine it’ll do some fun things with Brann.

In Arena, card advantage is pretty important, and using this to draw one of your late game cards might just win you the game, but early on it might not do anything, and arranging a board where you can grab a big minion might be tough (other than grabbing a 7 or less)

Hold on a second, the whole point of the Kobolds set has become clear to me!
It was never to give each class cool weapons.
It was never to add fun new mechanics.
It only had one goal, and that goal…. is making quest rogue the new meta!
Trying telling me this isn’t true! A minion that adds copies of itself to your hand, a card that copies a minion on turn three, and a shadowstep secret for rogue! What more could they need!

Interesting design. It’s kinda like a mix between Shadowcaster and Manic Soulcaster.

Shadow in the sense that the card is added to your hand and the base stats are the same and 1 below the Mana cost, and Soulcaster in the sense that it’s a 3-Drop that gives you an important card in full glory.

Lots of potential in so many different instances, I have to imagine at least one of them will show up eventually.

Well, panda is better stated- I understand that this is a lot better effect, by generating a card, but I don’t think this is an EVERY deck kind of card. Personally I’m having trouble thinking of a deck to put it in- it seems like a value card, so it’d have to be a more control-y deck. I can definitely see it getting played, I’m just having trouble seeing why everyone thinks it’s so amazing. I’m going to read more comments, so hopefully I’ll gain some insight

You can also play it in keleseth (because it’s a 3 mana bounce) and since it’s neutral the non-rogue keleseths will get a big buff to their minions of +2/+2 making them about as good as the average rogue turn 2. Rogue can also play this for a possible +4/+4 with keleseth, shadowstep, shadowstep, turn 3 zola.

Of course this is assuming your opponent doesn’t have removal to get rid of keleseth or they don’t care.
I mainly use Kelelock, so I’ll definitely craft this.

Thematically, I love this card. Mechanically, yeah sure. Get another N’Zoth or C’thun, get a combo piece, or just a quality card like Rag or Sylvanus, etc. Great card in specific decks, but not an auto-include.

Let’s look at shadow caster when comparing cards. I think this is a great card, think of all the creatures we would love to have two of, prince, nzoth, aya, obsidion statue, lich king, sure they can deal with one but multiple threats, solid card. I’ll play it.

similar but not the same.. because this card is not limited to hunter, where the battlecries are very poor. And also stitched tracker has more RNG to its effect. This card will probably be limited to meme decks tho.